Power Button Podcast
Tip JarPTB Celebrates 2,000 Entries
January 17, 2009
With another milestone reached it's time to look back at the articles that have brought us here to the big 2-0-0-0 entries mark. As I have done in the past, allow me to guide you back through my favorite moments from the last five hundred PTB articles. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll rage, and maybe - just maybe - you'll learn something worthwhile about yourself.
- Sheppard And McKay Play "The Game" (Stargate: Atlantis meets SimCity)
- Beyond Beeps: Rockin' Kats (Hey punk! I'll get you yet!)
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (This pilot for a Bubsy cartoon is just painful)
- Keeping The Smash Bros. Brawl Secrets A Secret (Not my most popular idea)
- Steamed (Everything worked out in the end, thankfully)
- The Great Goldeneye Debacle of 2008 (Too many license-holders spoil the fun)
- Endless Ocean Is All Wet (I think I've seen that eel somewhere before)
- Tattoo Assassins? Seriously? (DeLoreanality!)
- Beyond Beeps: A Boy and His Blob (Not all Beyond Beeps articles feature good music)
- Mega Man's Missed Menu Opportunity (Maybe it's impractical, but I still like it)
- Secret Origins: Aero the Acro-bat 2 (The best thing to come out of the vacation from hell)
- The Remembered (Update on forgotten games; most are still in limbo)
- Attempted Rock Band GDC Theft Thwarted (This one still stuns me when I think about it)
- More Gaming By The Numbers (Lots of number crunching for my own curiosity and amusement)
- Outside Is Overrated (The NPCs can be such jerks)
- The Ideal Game (From plot to packaging, this is my idea of the perfect game)
- Fun With Modifiers (Super Mario 64 DS 2 would win top honors)
- Someone's Gotta Create The Pidgits (Ever wonder who writes all of that seldom seen backstory?)
- ALF's Gotta Cat-ch 'Em All (Maze fun from the Commodore 64 era)
- Ghostbusters Needs To Be Good (I need this game to work. I really do.)
- Grand Theft Auto IV Includes Elton John (Is it too much to hope for Billy Joel in the extra downloadable missions?)
- Eighteen Years Of Progress (Depicting video games on mainstream television programming has come a long way)
- We Have To Spend Money To Spend More Money (Buy the game you don't really want to help finance the game you do)
- Wii Fit Wants To Be Your Friend (Endorsed by Dr. Carlo Lombardi)
- Validation From The Machine (Attempting to cheat as a group can be fun)
- The Lost Levels Of New Super Mario Bros. (Excised material from E3 2005 is still out there)
- The Lighter Side Of Piracy (Meowth's Heart Will Go On) (Pirated games often miss the mark)
- A Few Words With Ben Moy About Buku Sudoku (Looking at Sudoku and beyond)
- Mom Conquers The Universe In Lost Futurama Game Episode (No need to overpay on eBay anymore)
- The Robots Are Indeed Revolting (Ugly, ugly robots from Mega Man's bizarre era)
- More Mega Man Madness (I'm still waiting for the Dr. Wily simulator)
- What's Next For Halo? (Some people took this one too seriously for some reason)
- Fifteen Minutes Of Fame (Is that my picture on the official E3 website?)
- E3 2008 Photo Album Complete (Have camera, will travel)
- Local Media Unlocks "Send Nude Photo" Achievement (PS3 Trophy support requires PlayStation Eye camera)
- Conquest Of The Coliseum Of The Apes (Confusing co-workers is so much fun)
- Exploring The Earthbound Localization (In which Mother became its North American counterpart)
- Nintendo Famicom Autopsy (Ever reached into a console and pulled out the guts?)
- The Godfather 2 Poised To Pull You Back In (Every time I think I'm out...)
- Plenty Of Other Games Could Be Rearmed And Powered Up (C'mon Strider!)
- Learn To Read With Moblin's Magic Spear (Elementary school book fair memories)
- When 480p Is Not Enough (Now that I have a PS3 I'm even more of a high definition snob)
- Spectacular ROM Hacks Propel Mario, Link, Sonic To New Places (Yoshi visits Green Hill Zone)
- Inappropriate! (And they call it monkey love...)
- Mini-Review: Video Games Live - Volume One (CD) (Come for the Castlevania track)
- Robot Chicken Targets Excitebike (Features a bunch of game-related sketches from the show)
- Mini-Review: Scene It? Seinfeld (Approved by Vandelay Industries)
- Robot Master Roll Call (Exploring my eight favorite Mega Man bosses)
- Robot Masters On Parade (Rarely seen highly detailed Robot Master art; first of a five-part series)
- Welcome Back, Greedy Wario! (Toilet humor is the easy way out)
- Limited Edition Packages Are Too Much, Too Soon (How'd that $130 Mirror's Edge box work out for you?)
- We Should Have Seen The DSi Coming (Nintendo continues to repeat history)
- Pirated Mega Man 8 For Game Boy Is Pathetic (The pirates aren't even trying anymore)
- A Few Words With Ian Milham About Dead Space (I'm still waiting for Necromorph jellybeans)
- It's Finally Time To Play Earthbound 2 (After all the time I spent whining about it, you'd think I'd have finished it by now)
- Castlevania Formula Needs Fresh Blood (In which I suggest how to shake up the franchise)
- Enjoy The Silence Of The Daylight (Listen to these fan-created remixes of my favorite Castlevania tune)
- Sega Cartridges Tied To Terrorism? Say It Ain't So! (Mega Bomberman should only be used for good)
- Daffy DSi Disclaimers (Beware of screwdrivers)
- Awesome Nintendo Power Posters Remembered (Recalling my childhood bedroom wall)
- Twenty Years Of Sega Genesis Fun (Sega's 16-bit machine lives on in our hearts among other places)
- WiiSpeak Has An Expiration Date (This wound up being a tempest in a teapot)
- Weekly Poll: There Can Be Only One (Which Mega Man is the true Mega Man?)
- Beaky Turtles Mark Dawn Of The Koopa Troop (Vintage Nintendo art raises questions)
- There Goes The HD Neighborhood (In which I buy a PS3)
- Capcom Wants Your Input (C'mon Darkwing Duck!)
- Pushing Digital Daisies (The facts are these: losing this show still hurts)
- Tomb Raider: Underworld Knows Its Focus (Lara's eyes are up here, young man)
- Coping With The Backlog Of Doom (It's not fair. There was time now!)
- Club Nintendo Launches, Asks What Have We Done For It Lately (This seems to have worked out in the end)
- Chun-Li Sort Of Explains New Street Fighter Movie (I wonder which version they're up to now)
- Nintendo Q1 2009 Lineup Is Pathetic (My Wii remote gently weeps)
- Air Man Lives! (Detailed action figure created by a fan with a fan)
- SPRayReview At Kombo (I never thought I'd call for realistic vomit in a video game)
- Sonic Saves Santa In Christmas Blast (This explains so much)
- 2009 Wish List (High hopes for the year ahead)
- PS3/X360 Sonic Unleashed Frustrates In New Ways (I wound up buying this one after all, but deeply discounted)
- Mini-Review: Mirror's Edge (Love that mechanical penthouse design)
- Whither Darkstar? (The cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000 may yet be seen in this vaporware game)
- Sonic Team Trapped In Own Personal Hell? (This explains even more)
- MattG Joins Kombo Breaker Podcast (New episodes every Friday)
- What Makes A Game Of The Year? (Large internal debate behind the scenes at Kombo)
- Why So Superfluous? Dark Knight Game Goes Down In Flames (Wanna see a magic trick?)
- The Godfather II Asks For A Favor (NPCs make you offers you can't refuse)